Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:34:49 +0100 From: James Seward <jamesoff@gmail.com> To: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4' Message-ID: <720051dc0905110734h387d39cbm9ff969336fe9d0fa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905111630.23123.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111935570.6330@localhost> <200905111630.23123.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> wrote: > Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master > and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning > SATA starts at ad4. > > Some BIOSes let you change this. Or you can take "option ATA_STATIC_ID" out of your kernel config. /JMS
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